{"id":12982,"title":"The Maze Maker","dimensions":"21.7 x 15 cm, 320 p., language : English, publisher : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York/Chicago/San Francisco","date_begin":"1967-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/47","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"the-maze-maker","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/028/367/large/Untitled114.jpg?1430212476","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e15.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fictional autobiography of the father of Icarus, \u0026ldquo;Apollo\u0026rsquo;s creature,\u0026rdquo; a brilliant but flawed man, writer and sculptor Michael Ayrton harnesses the tales of the past to mold a myth for our times. We learn of Daedalus\u0026rsquo;s increasingly ambitious artifacts and inventions; his fascination with Minoan culture, commerce, and religion, and his efforts to adapt to them; how he comes to design the maze of the horned Minotaur; and how, when he decides that he must flee yet again, he builds two sets of wax wings\u0026mdash;wings that will be instruments of his descent into the underworld, a place of both purgatory and rebirth. A compelling mix of history, fable, lore, and meditations on the enigma of art, \u003cem\u003eThe Maze Maker\u003c/em\u003e will ensnare classicists, artists, and all lovers of story in its convolutions of life and legend. \u0026ldquo;I never understood the pattern of my life,\u0026rdquo; writes Daedalus, \u0026ldquo;so that I have blundered through it in a maze.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The University of Chicago Press\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-ayrton/the-maze-maker/\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2691,"name":"Michael Ayrton","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}